ABSTRACT
Contents Abstract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356 17.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356 17.2 Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356 17.3 Technology platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357 17.4 Behavior Imaging for research. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357 17.5 Behavior Capture• . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359 17.6 Behavior Connect• . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360 17.7 Pharmaceutical R&D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360 17.8 Data quality challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361 17.9 Recent technology applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362 17.10 Pharmaceutical trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363 17.11 Retrospective evaluation of archived video data . . . . . . . . . . 365 17.12 Behavior Imaging in natural settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367 17.13 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367 Acknowledgment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
Abstract Behavior Imaging® was incorporated into an NIMH-funded multisite pharmaceutical trial to remotely document clinical rater reliability within a standardized observer evaluation protocol. Behavior Imaging provided a centralized telehealth system capable of documenting observer agreement. Interviewer-observer training and ongoing maintenance of assessment quality was performed efciently. Behavior Imaging provided an important new quality control tool previously not available for such multisite research studies. The results indicate the potential for successful applications also to retrospective studies of archived video data and the evaluation of recorded data obtained in natural settings.
